Solar System & Satellite Images

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Mike Tyrrell sent in this very nice picture of Clavius.
Image taken approx 05:00 3/12/04. 300 frames from ToUCam at 1/25. Best 150 stacked in Registax2
 

  Paul Brierley sent in this picture of the recent Venus-Jupiter conjunction. Tripod mounted Canon Power Shot S10 digital camera November 3rd 2004 at 6:40am.

 

  Paul Brierley sent in this nice picture of the Waning Gibbous Moon.
Taken with a 120 mm Konus Refractor
Canon Power Shot S10 digital camera
24-8mm Vixen LV zoom eyepiece

The image was taken October 30th 2004 from Gradbach.

Phil Masding's latest ISS image, from a pass on 26/7/03. Phil describes this one as his most detailed yet - congrats Phil.

mt_merc_tran.jpg (17230 bytes)    A nice shot of the Mercury transit, by Mike Tyrell. 

mc_eclipse.jpg (50586 bytes)    An eclipse shot from Mark Crossley, taken with a Digital Camera - there's a woeful tale to do with film cameras that comes with this shot, if you noticed the newsgroup message.. 

ch_eclipse_1.jpg (79963 bytes)     ch_eclipse_2.jpg (80569 bytes)     A brace of solar eclipse shots Taken from Scotland by Colin Henshaw's Brother-in-law

mt_sun_030626.jpg (21818 bytes)     mt_sun_030706_a.jpg (32476 bytes)    Sunspot groups from Mike Tyrell

mt_mare_nectaris.jpg (47553 bytes) Mare Nectaris, Again by Mike Tyrrell

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The above three images were taken by Mike Tyrrell with a Meade ETX70 and a webcam. details are given on the images.                       

moondt.jpg (20941 bytes) Dave Timperley took this image of the Mare Humorum area of the moon, at prime focus through an 8'' scope, using a 2x teleconvertor to increase the image size. Exposure is 1/8th second on Kodachrome 64asa, @f18.

vallis_schroteri.jpg (14245 bytes) Mark Crossley made this image of Vallis Schroteri using a modified Phillips webcam attached to his LX200

moon_mike_t.jpg (68697 bytes) Mike Tyrrell created this image of a waxing moon, details as follows:     Date: 18-Oct-02    Time: 20:50 UTC   
Conditions: Frosty, fair seeing
Telescope: unguided 4.25" "Astroscan" 
Camera: Vesta 675.  15FPS, 640x480,  1/500 , low gain, auto white balance
Image processing: four sets of 12 frames each in Registax, cropped to remove edge effects then assembled in PaintShopPro 7. Two layers within mosaic needed brightness adjustment to improve match.

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Phil Masding sent these shots of Asteroid 2002NY40, captured 18/08/02, 20 second exposures with a Starlight Express HX516 CCD camera, through a 10'' Meade LX200 at F6.3

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The above 3 images of the ISS were sent by Mike Tyrell, and are unprocessed frames taken with a JVC digital video camera through a 10'' Meade LX200. 

moon 010102.jpg (59607 bytes) Gibbous Moon, 1/16th sec. exposure on Kodachrome 64ASA, Vixen VC200L @ F9 prime focus by Dave Timperley

jupocc1.jpg (73460 bytes) Grazing occultation of Jupiter By the Moon, 26th Jan, 2002, 18:42:34UT, 1/20th sec. exposure @F4.8, afocal projection through 25mm eyepiece on 8.75'' dobsonian, by Chris Suddick.

fullmoongreyscale.jpg (66919 bytes) Moon, just a few hours past full. Vixen VC200L @F9 prime focus, Kodak E200, 1/250th second exposure, image converted to greyscale, Dave Timperley.